John Henry Dale

John Henry Dale plays and produces music for people, in a variety of both analog and digital media. With a vast collection of music from all corners of the globe, and years of training as DJ, drummer, live electronic music performer, and studio musician, he tries to bring a curatorial approach to every gig, be it as a DJ, producer or performer.

John Henry Dale is currently working on a project using the Ableton Push (a new instrument and MIDI controller for Ableton Live with 64 keys laid out in an 8×8 grid) to convert the move data from famous chess matches into music. He is working on an algorithm to turn this chess data into a compelling tonal and atonal compositional structures as well as an audio-visual performance.